2013年7月29日星期一

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Kerry seeks 'reasonable compromises' in Israeli-Palestinian talks

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 02:15 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets Martin Indyk at the State Department in WashingtonBy Arshad Mohammed and Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on Monday for Israel and the Palestinians to make "reasonable compromises" for peace as he prepared to preside over their first direct negotiations in nearly three years. "It is no secret this is a difficult process. If it were easy, it would have happened a long time ago," Kerry said with his newly named envoy for Israeli-Palestinian peace, former U.S. ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk, at his side. ...


Gunmen launch major attack on Pakistani prison holding militants

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 02:37 PM PDT

By Saud Mehsud DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Grenade-wielding Taliban fighters battled Pakistani security forces during a sophisticated midnight attack on a major prison holding hundreds of Taliban and other militants, police said on Monday. Fighting continued into the early hours of Tuesday, and security forces said they had imposed a curfew on the city, Dera Ismail Khan, 200 miles west of Lahore. The Pakistani Taliban sent 100 fighters and seven suicide bombers on a mission to free some of their top leaders, said Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid. ...

Egypt sides defiant as EU envoy seeks compromise

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 02:03 PM PDT

By Maggie Fick and Matt Robinson CAIRO (Reuters) - Europe's top diplomat pressed Egypt's rulers on Monday to step back from a growing confrontation with the Muslim Brotherhood of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Mursi, two days after 80 of his supporters were gunned down in Cairo. Raising the prospect of more bloodshed, the Brotherhood said it would march again on Monday evening towards a military intelligence headquarters. ...

Gunmen kill eight Tunisian troops as political tensions rise

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 04:40 PM PDT

People waving Tunisian flags gather during a protest to demand the ouster of the Islamist-dominated government, outside the Constituent Assembly headquarters in TunisBy Tarek Amara and Erika Solomon TUNIS (Reuters) - Gunmen killed at least eight Tunisian soldiers on Monday, staging the biggest attack on the security forces in decades as political tensions rose between supporters and opponents of the Islamist-led government. President Moncef Marzouki called the ambush on Mount Chaambi, near the Algerian border, a "terrorist attack" and announced three days of mourning. Tunisian troops have been trying to track down Islamist militants in the remote region since December. ...


Berlusconi faces verdict that could endanger Italian government

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 04:32 PM PDT

People of Freedom (PDL) party member and former Prime Minister Berlusconi attends the Upper house of the parliament in RomeBy Barry Moody ROME (Reuters) - Italy's supreme court convenes on Tuesday to rule whether Silvio Berlusconi should be jailed and banned from public office for tax fraud, a verdict that could endanger Italy's shaky coalition government. A ruling against the former prime minister would be his first definitive conviction and signal the end of an era in which he has dominated Italian politics for two decades through his media power and political skill. ...


Two Swiss trains collide, 35 injured, driver feared dead

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 02:27 PM PDT

GRANGES-PRES-MARNAND, Switzerland (Reuters) - Two trains collided head-on in Switzerland on Monday evening, injuring about 35 people, five seriously, police said. The driver of one of the trains was still unaccounted for and thought to be inside the wreckage, at Granges-près-Marnand in the canton of Vaud, police spokesman Jean-Christophe Sauterel said. "These are regional trains. The speeds are a little lower and even if one deeply regrets the likely loss of life of one person as well as five serious injuries, the situation could have been much more catastrophic," Sauterel said. ...

Al Qaeda group kidnaps Italian priest in Syria: activists

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 04:41 PM PDT

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis AMMAN (Reuters) - Al Qaeda-linked fighters in a rebel-held eastern Syrian city on Monday abducted a prominent Italian Jesuit priest who championed the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said. Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant kidnapped father Paolo Dall'Oglio while he was walking in Raqqa, which fell to militant Islamist brigades in March, the sources in Raqqa province told Reuters. ...

Spain mourns train crash victims in official Mass

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 04:29 PM PDT

People watch the funeral in memory of the victims of the July 24, 2013 train crash, on the screen outside the Cathedral of Santiago de CompostelaBy Silvio Castellanos SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (Reuters) - Mourners packed a memorial service on Monday for the 79 people who died in the country's worst rail disaster in decades, as investigators prepared to analyze information from the train's data recording device, or "black box." The driver of the train, 52-year-old Francisco Garzon, has been charged with 79 counts of negligent homicide and released pending trial after a judge determined he was not a flight risk. ...


Bombs kill 15 in Nigeria's Kano: police source

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 04:08 PM PDT

KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Multiple bomb blasts in Nigeria's biggest northern city of Kano killed 15 people on Monday, a senior policeman said, in an area previously targeted by militant Islamist group Boko Haram. Several witnesses said they saw dead bodies after hearing multiple blasts at around 9:30 p.m. (1630 EDT) in the Sabon Gari district, a predominantly Christian area dominated by ethnic Igbos from the southeast. "In all bomb attacks 15 were killed," the policeman in Kano told Reuters, asking not to be named. ...

Nigeria: Explosions rock Christian area of Kano

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 04:07 PM PDT

KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Multiple explosions rocked a Christian area in Nigeria's northern Kano city Monday night, with security forces ferrying scores of wounded to hospitals.

Obama, Clinton meet for lunch, sparking 2016 buzz

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 03:45 PM PDT

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives at the White House in Washington, Monday, July 29, 2013, for lunch with President Barack Obama. It's the most talked about lunch in the nation's capital. President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are dining privately at the White House Monday. While it's not the first time the pair have seen each other since Clinton left the administration earlier this year, each of their get-togethers are closely analyzed. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON (AP) — When is a lunch more than just a midday meal? When the two diners are President Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, and inquiring minds want to know who, if anyone, the president will endorse in 2016.


Epic Diamond Heist: Did the Pink Panthers Strike Again?

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 03:28 PM PDT

Gunmen from the international jewelry thief network known as the Pink Panthers launched an assault last Thursday on a prison in western Switzerland that lasted just long enough for one imprisoned member and another inmate to escape.

'Who am I to judge?' pope says of gay priests

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 03:13 PM PDT

Pope Francis answers reporters questions during a news conference aboard the papal flight on its way back from Brazil, Monday, July 29, 2013. Pope Francis reached out to gays on Monday, saying he wouldn't judge priests for their sexual orientation in a remarkably open and wide-ranging news conference as he returned from his first foreign trip. "If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge?" Francis asked. His predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, signed a document in 2005 that said men with deep-rooted homosexual tendencies should not be priests. Francis was much more conciliatory, saying gay clergymen should be forgiven and their sins forgotten. Francis' remarks came Monday during a plane journey back to the Vatican from his first foreign trip in Brazil. (AP Photo/Luca Zennaro, Pool)ABOARD THE PAPAL AIRCRAFT (AP) — A remarkably candid Pope Francis struck a conciliatory stance toward gays Monday, saying "who am I to judge" when it comes to the sexual orientation of priests.


Official: Cannes diamond heist actually nets $136M

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 03:09 PM PDT

Police outside the Carlton hotel, in Cannes, southern France, the scene of a daylight raid, Sunday, July 28, 2013. A staggering 40 million euro ($53 million) worth of jewels and diamonds were stolen Sunday from the Carlton Intercontinental Hotel in Cannes, in one of Europe's biggest jewelry heists recent years, police said. French Riviera hotel was hosting a temporary jewelry exhibit over the summer of the prestigious Leviev diamond house, which is owned by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)PARIS (AP) — Wearing a scarf to mask his face, the gunman sneaked into the posh Cannes hotel and held up a diamond show as three security guards looked on, then fled on foot about a minute later. In the end, he made off with a breathtaking $136 million worth of valuables — the biggest jewelry heist in years, maybe ever.


8 Tunisian soldiers killed in militant ambush

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 03:00 PM PDT

In this photo taken on June 25, 2013, a Tunisian armored personnel carrier patrols near the Jebel Chaambi mountain. Writing on building at left reads: "For Sale". Gunmen ambushed a Tunisian army patrol Monday July 29, 2013 in a mountainous border region known as a militant stronghold, killing at least eight soldiers, the presidential spokesman said. (AP Photo/Paul Schemm)TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Gunmen ambushed a Tunisian army patrol Monday in a mountainous border region known as an Islamic militant stronghold, killing at least eight soldiers, the presidential spokesman said.


Scientists find mystery coffin at Richard III site

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 02:55 PM PDT

LONDON (AP) — A team of archaeologists said Monday it has unearthed an unusual coffin-within-a-coffin in the central England parking lot where it found the skeleton of King Richard III, and that they hope to identify the remains within.

EU diplomat seeks a way out of Egypt's crisis

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 02:53 PM PDT

Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi pray at Nasr City, where protesters have installed a camp and hold daily rallies, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, July 28, 2013. Deadly clashes broke out during funerals of slain supporters of Egypt's ousted Islamist president Sunday, as the supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood urged his followers to stand fast after more than 80 of them were killed in weekend violence. The Arabic reads, "Yes for the legitimacy, no for the coup." (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)CAIRO (AP) — Europe's top diplomat on Sunday searched for a way out of Egypt's increasingly bloody and complex crisis, looking for compromises in talks with the military-backed government and allies of the ousted president.


Egypt: 15 killed in a gunfight over market space

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 02:48 PM PDT

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's state news agency says a gunfight between two families in a Cairo market has left 15 people dead, including 13 who were burned to death.

Mali election challenges loom as rivals stake claims

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 02:42 PM PDT

Poll workers count ballots after the end of voting in Mali's presidential elections in TimbuktuBy David Lewis and Tiemoko Diallo BAMAKO (Reuters) - Former Malian prime minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita's campaign team said on Monday its results put Keita in a strong lead and in reach of outright victory in Mali's election, but rivals said they were sure a run-off vote would have to be held. The statements came ahead of official tallies from Sunday's vote and are the first signs of tension after a robust turnout and the lack of violence showed how eager Malians were to turn the page on more than a year of turmoil, war and an army coup. The first official figures were not due until Tuesday. ...


Iran nominee seen as olive branch to United States

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 02:30 PM PDT

IRANIAN AMBASSADOR IN UN SECURITY COUNCIL.By Marcus George and Paul Taylor DUBAI/PARIS (Reuters) - If Iranian President-elect Hassan Rouhani wanted to signal his determination to rebuild relations with the United States and strike a "grand bargain," he could hardly do better than pick Mohammad Javad Zarif as his foreign minister. Iranian news agencies reported on Monday that Zarif, a former ambassador to the United Nations and Tehran's leading connoisseur of the U.S. political elite, is set to be in the cabinet Rouhani will announce after taking office on Sunday. ...


Personality cult built around Egypt's top general

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 02:30 PM PDT

FILE - In this Monday, July 8, 2013 file photo, Egyptians chant slogans as they hold a poster of Egyptian Army Chief Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi during a protest in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt. Arabic reads on the poster reads, "Sissi, go down, let the Brotherhood hide." In dark sunglasses and a uniform studded with medals, Egypt's top general is everywhere, looking down from posters and banners proclaiming him CAIRO (AP) — In dark sunglasses and a uniform studded with medals, Egypt's top general is everywhere, looking down from posters and banners proclaiming him "lion of the nation." Adoring songs vow "We are behind you."


Analysis: Mideast peace deal seems far off

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 02:26 PM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 1947 file photo, Jewish people gather in the streets of Tel Aviv after radio broadcasts announced that the United Nations plans for the partition of Palestine and the New Jewish State. Under the 1947 UN partition plan that divided British-ruled Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state, Jerusalem was to be an international city ruled by neither and surrounded by Arab territory.(AP Photo/Jim Pringle, File)JERUSALEM (AP) — The contours of Israeli-Palestinian peace are clear, experts say: If only the sides summon up the will, the inevitable outcome is two states roughly along the pre-1967 borders, with Jerusalem as a shared capital and a finessing of the Palestinian refugee issue.


Scientists find another coffin at Richard III site

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 02:26 PM PDT

LONDON (AP) — A team of archaeologists says it has unearthed another interesting coffin in the central England parking lot where it found the skeleton of King Richard III.

Tunisia says eight soldiers killed near Algeria border

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 02:24 PM PDT

Tunisia's President Marzouki arrives at the airport in Algiers, during his first official visit to the countryTUNIS (Reuters) - Eight Tunisian soldiers were killed by militants near the Algerian border on Monday, the president's office said, in what appeared to be one of the biggest attacks on the country's security forces in decades. The incident occurred in the remote area of Mount Chaambi, where Tunisian troops have been trying to track down Islamist militants since December last year. (Reporting by Erika Solomon; editing by Mike Collett-White)


Official: 8 Tunisian soldiers killed in ambush

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 02:22 PM PDT

In this photo taken on June 25, 2013, a Tunisian armored personnel carrier patrols near the Jebel Chaambi mountain. Writing on building at left reads: "For Sale". Gunmen ambushed a Tunisian army patrol Monday July 29, 2013 in a mountainous border region known as a militant stronghold, killing at least eight soldiers, the presidential spokesman said. (AP Photo/Paul Schemm)TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Gunmen ambushed a Tunisian army patrol Monday in a mountainous border region known as an Islamic militant stronghold, killing at least eight soldiers, the presidential spokesman said.


Militants attack prison in northwest Pakistan

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 02:22 PM PDT

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Taliban militants disguised as police and armed with guns, rocket-propelled grenades and explosives attacked a prison in northwest Pakistan holding 40 "high profile" inmates Monday night in an apparent attempt to free their colleagues, officials said.

Correction: Newport Folk Festival story

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 02:15 PM PDT

NEWPORT, R.I. - NEWPORT, Rhode Island (AP) — In stories July 26 and July 28 about The Newport Folk Festival, The Associated Press misidentified a singer who played the festival in the 1960s. He is Pete Seeger, not Bob Seeger.

White House condemns Egyptian violence, killing of protesters

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 02:06 PM PDT

A member of Muslim Brotherhood and supporter of deposed President Mursi stands near burnt motorcycle after late night clashes, at entrance to their campsite near Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Nasr cityWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Monday condemned violence in Egypt that led to the killing of scores of demonstrators at the weekend but said it had taken no steps to suspend U.S. military assistance to the Arab world's most populous nation. "The United States strongly condemns the violence and bloodshed in Cairo and Alexandria over the weekend that claimed the lives of scores of Egyptian demonstrators," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters at a briefing. ...


Tunisia announces three days of mourning for slain soldiers: TV

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 01:39 PM PDT

Tunisia's President Marzouki arrives at the airport in Algiers, during his first official visit to the countryTUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia's president announced three days of mourning for 8 soldiers killed in an ambush attack by militants, state television said. Tunisian television cut regular programming and broadcast Quranic verses and patriotic songs, and announced that President Moncef Marzouki would address the nation shortly. (Reporting by Erika Solomon; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)


Former U.S. President Carter has no plans to visit North Korea: aide

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 01:29 PM PDT

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter gestures before delivering a speech at a hotel in YangonWASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) - A representative for former U.S. President Jimmy Carter denied reports on Monday that he was planning to visit North Korea soon to try to win the release of an American citizen being held in the reclusive nation. South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported that Carter, 88, would be visiting soon to urge the release of Kenneth Bae, who was sentenced in May for committing crimes against North Korea. Deanna Congileo, a spokeswoman at the Carter Center in Atlanta, said that is not the case. ...


Cash bonds for visas: UK migrant curb stirs anger

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 01:28 PM PDT

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Defying protests, the British government said Monday it will go ahead with a pilot plan to curb illegal immigration by demanding visitors from six of its ex-colonies post a cash bond to obtain visas.

Assad's forces kill 12 rebels taking flour from mill: activist

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 01:19 PM PDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - At least 12 rebel fighters were killed on Monday as they were taking flour from a mill on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus, opposition activists said, in their latest setback at the hands of forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. The rebels had only just captured the mill on the Damascus Airport road following a battle that lasted several hours, in the hope that they could relieve a food shortage caused by a siege of the area by loyalist forces for the last two months. ...

Islamist party office attacked as Libya violence persists

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 01:08 PM PDT

People look at a vehicle belonging to the Libyan army after it exploded in BenghaziBy Ghaith Shennib and Feras Bosalum TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Assailants attacked an Islamist party office in Tripoli on Monday and a soldier was killed in fighting in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi, officials said, in an escalation of violence following the assassination of a political activist last week. A government source confirmed Social Affairs Minister Kamila Khamis al-Mazini had publicly announced her resignation, several days after Prime Minister Ali Zeidan promised to reshuffle his cabinet to help cope with the "urgent" situation in Libya. ...


Swiss police say 35 injured in train collision

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 01:00 PM PDT

Police inspect the site where two passenger trains collided head-on in Granges-pres-Marnand, western Switzerland, Monday, July 29, 2013. Numerous people have been injured. (AP Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron)BERLIN (AP) — At least 35 people were injured, five of them seriously, in a head-on collision of two trains in western Switzerland late Monday, police said. One person had yet to be recovered from the wreckage.


Servant was well-treated, say lawyers for Saudi princess in U.S. trafficking case

Posted: 29 Jul 2013 12:55 PM PDT

Saudi Arabian princess Alayban, behind bars, listens to advice from defense attorneys while in court for an arraignment hearing in Santa AnaBy Dana Feldman SANTA ANA (Reuters) - Lawyers for a Saudi princess accused of holding a Kenyan servant a virtual prisoner in her California home portrayed the servant on Monday as so well-treated that she had access to amenities like a spa and pool and went shopping at local malls. The 42-year-old princess is charged with bringing the woman to the United States in May, confiscating her passport and paying her $220 a month to work 16 hours a day, seven days a week, while essentially holding her captive in a situation Orange County's top prosecutor likened to slavery. ...


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